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Entrepreneurs: Sleeping Well? 💤

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Brian talks about how stealing his kids Halloween candy and eating it makes him tired. 🍫

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Entrepreneurs, sleeping well?

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J Pombo Live.

You know, it’s the little things that make a big difference in life, especially when you’re talking about the personal journey of an entrepreneur or a business owner of the person that’s making the things happen.

And I was getting ready to talk with you this evening and found myself dozing off quite a bit early. And I’m like, I’m never this tired this early, what is going on?

Thought back and looked over, looked over the past 48 hours or so. And I realized yesterday I did something that I haven’t done for years, I really haven’t. Okay, every once in a while, I will grab one of those tiny, tiny, smallest pieces of candy and eat it when my kids have some from Halloween or Christmas or what have you and not very often.

The reason is after I really cut back on the amount of sugar and carbs that I take in, I just don’t crave it that much. But every once in a while, I’ll have a piece, no big deal.

Nothing, it doesn’t do anything to me anymore. At least nothing too visible.

Well, yesterday for some reason, and it was one just lack of yet easily edible food in the house. And just I don’t know the string of things, I ended up gorging myself on Halloween candy, just I’ll freely admit it, I just I had a way more than I’ve had, I mean, probably well over a year worth, because I don’t need it.

I had over a few years worth in one afternoon, because at one point, I live in so much at this point, and there’s no reason to stop. I’m gonna condense the misery as much as possible, the pleasure and the misery into as much a short period of time as possible.

Surprisingly enough, it did not hit me too hard. Except for today, I have been extremely tired.

It’s caught up with me in that way as the dip that comes afterward, you know.

And so I sleep it made me realize, once again, sleep is a major deal.

I’ve gotten really, really good at handling my sleep and regulating it over the past few years. And just knowing a few things that make it overwhelming.

And that makes it make it to where I’m not sleeping enough, or I’m sleeping too much or too deep. I’ll just a couple of a handful of tips that I’ve learned over the years. And most of the stuff you already know.

But sometimes it just takes somebody tapping you on the shoulder and reminding you at least for me it did. And it comes down to what are the things that allow me to sleep so that I don’t have to worry about it the rest of the time, and there are a few things I do. One, if I’m exercising regularly, then sleep is not an issue. I don’t sleep as much when I exercise. And when I do sleep, I sleep well. I get it out of the way.

It’s interesting when I exercise a lot, I don’t need to nap. But this is a second thing if you’re not exercising. If you don’t have that built-in somewhere in your weekly schedule.

You probably should nap just toss in a nap in the middle of the day somewhere.

For me, it’s in the afternoon, and literally 15 to 20 minutes. That’s all I need.

I’ve gotten really good at power naps. Now I’ve met people that say they can’t do a power nap. But the power nap is just a quick nap that just energizes you and get you through the rest of the day. And I’ve been doing that for the past six months or so because I haven’t been exercising.

But exercise really does help.

But if not, you find a way to fit in a little bit more sleep. Another thing is I don’t eat late. I stopped eating late I stopped eating I actually will. I’ve skipped dinners.

Personally, personally, I’ve been able to get to the point where I could skip dinners and stop eating somewhere in the early afternoon. And I won’t eat for the rest of the night now drink water and I may even have a little bit of coffee.

If you’re sensitive to caffeine. That’s another thing. If you get yourself too wired too late in the day, you’re going to have a tough time getting to sleep. When you finally do get to sleep you’re going to sleep too long.

You’re going to feel like garbage in the morning or you’re not going to get enough because you got to get up early to go do the next thing.

So make sure you get enough sleep make sure that sleep is quality sleep, understanding, having a couple of supplements available to you can help.

I’ve got a supplement that I can that I use that has that has, you know, a little bit of melatonin and a little bit of all these other natural things and he but even if they’re natural, you can become dependent on it, just realize that.

But if you’re traveling, like when I travel and so forth, I like to take, I like to have something like that. Because sometimes it’s tough with the flights, especially if you’re traveling past certain time zones and all that I’d like to really pay attention to that and try to keep up on it as best as possible.

You’re always going to have issues, things that pop up, you can’t do anything about people having babies, things like that, that really throw your sleep cycle off.

But if you don’t get a handle on your sleep, it will catch up to you because it affects all your other health issues in your body.

Okay, burning fat, staying young, all these so many things go back to having quality sleep, it feels like especially when you’re younger, that you can have bad sleep for a long period of time. It’ll catch up with you don’t do that. Don’t try and you know, burn the candle on both ends as they say. It’s just not worth it.

Find a way to fix your problems with sleep. There are natural ways they’re simple. It’s the simplest ways that have made the biggest difference for me in my life. Hopefully, this helps you out a little bit.

I’ve got a book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business.

If you’re looking for more broad-based strategies to be able to use in your business that really make you stand out. Make it to where your competition proof even if that competitions Amazon.com Go get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com

That’s all the time I got for tonight. You have a good one, we’ll be back tomorrow.

Get out there and let the magic happen.

Dan Kennedy’s Top 3 Growth Impactors

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Dan’s Interview with Clint Arthur – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeY-kdvfFtU&feature=youtu.be

Dan Kennedy’s top three growth factors. Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to the Orange Office in Grants Pass Oregon here once again for Brian J. Pombo Live.

Now we’re going to be talking about something that Dan Kennedy just recently brought up and yes, this is the same Dan Kennedy that a few days ago it was announced that he was in hospice and was not thinking that he’s going to be living much longer. We discussed that in some earlier videos. You can go back and look at that.

I wanted to bring up the latest interview that I’ve heard with him was done by a gentleman named Clint Arthur and I’m going to talk about that in a minute. I’ve also got the link in the description, so you can go check that out.

But if you are a business owner or an executive and you are looking to take your business from where it’s at to an absolute dream business, I’m going to encourage you to watch some more of my videos, see if we relate.

If we do go to DreamBizChat.com. At DreamBizChat.com you can watch the quick little video, eight and a half minutes long, gives you an idea of what I call the dream business transformation and if that’ll tell you whether you’d be a good fit for me or not. Just fill out the application and see if you qualify.

This video between Client and Dan is worth watching, worth listening to a Dan Kennedy’s half of it. He’s just coming in over the phone.

I wanted to point out one point that he made that I think applies well I know applies to you and applies to other people when it comes to businesses.

In our latest Off The Grid Biz Podcast episodes. We’ve been discussing, speaking and writing books and how that helps.

One of the things that Clint Arthur teaches is he teaches people how to do public speaking in order to promote whatever they’re looking to promote themselves, how to make themselves more of a celebrity or how, he calls it celebritize yourself.

I first ran into Clint Arthur is a few years back when he wrote a 21 Performance Secrets of Donald Trump. And it’s not a political book, but this was right when Donald Trump started running for president.

And all he did was he took a lot of the performance secrets that he could see exhibited that Donald Trump exhibited and he put it out in a book. So regardless of what you think about president Trump, these are lessons that you could learn that obviously eventually led to his becoming president. So it’s a great book. Great Book by Clinton Arthur. That’s when I was first introduced to him.

I think he did an interview for, I Love Marketing. I think that’s where I heard about him and I’ve been following him ever since. Really great guy. Interesting.

The reason why he was interviewing Dan Kennedy is he was supposed to attend this Living Legends of Entrepreneurial Marketing, which is happening at Carnegie Hall at the end of September.

You go find out more about that at livinglegends2019.com. That is Clint’s event. So you go check that out. I definitely recommend it.

And Martha Stewart is going to be there. A Dan Kennedy was meant to get a lifetime achievement award.

Whether he’ll be able to make it or not, it’s not looking like that’s the case, but from what we know, he’s still kicking. So hopefully Dan can pull through.

The three things that he mentions about business growth, it starts with Clint asking him, and it’s around six minutes in, where he’s asking him basically, Do you see anything that has a greater impact than speaking when it comes to business growth? In terms of your business?

Dan says, speaking has been by far the biggest boost to his business.

And he does a whole lot of things, but speaking has been huge piece of that. He goes through all the reasons why and how you can use speaking to increase your business or whatever deal that you’re working with and whatever you’re trying to promote.

So he says there’s nothing that works better than being on stage and being a walking, talking example of what you’re talking. Whatever you’re discussing, having that real tangible visibility makes the biggest difference for your business.

The second thing he says that other people work on, is getting themselves into the media. Which is another thing that Clint Arthur teaches is how to get yourself into media. That’s already out there.

So whether it be news media, whether it be entertainment, all the different forms of media that are out there. How you can insert yourself into that conversation.

He says that’s another big thing. That’s the second one that he recommends.

The third thing is writing and, or just pushing content, any form of content out into the world, similar to what we’re doing right here. Just pushing content out into the world.

If you’re able to do enough of that, that will also be a huge boost your business. So these are three things just off the top of his head that he says are some of the biggest, expansions in business growth.

These are some things, the tools that you can use. So those are three things. We talk about, all those things a lot here. And I look to talk more about in the future.

Dan Kennedy is very topical because of his recent announcement of being in hospice. So we hope Dan can pull through and even if he can’t, he’s, he’s lived one hell of a life. It’s been really great listening to a lot of his old audios and stuff that are out there, and it’s great to hear a fresh interview like this.

I’m not sure if this is the last interview that he’s done, but it’s worth going and listening to if you get a chance.

Tomorrow we’re going to be discussing another aspect of how you can be able to promote your business. So come back tomorrow. We’ll be talking about that. Then in the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

What Is Business Strategy?

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What is business strategy?

Hi, I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live brought to you by BrianJPombo.com. We’re here in Grants Pass Oregon, the jewel of Southern Oregon.

Here in the Orange Office and today we’re going to be talking what is business strategy?

Why am I talking about business strategy?

Well, because it’s what I do for a living business strategy.

I help businesses to help plan what they need to do for the long run to achieve what they want.

There’s always difficulty going into this with people because the great fear is that you’re going to make it appear more simple than it actually is. Really, that’s impossible because what I do is extremely simple.

I’m just going to give it all away today. I’m going to tell you exactly what it is that I do and show you how, how fundamentally simple it is.

That honestly, if you just watched enough of these videos, if you got to see enough of the programs that I have available on my site and took advantage of all the free stuff that I provide, you’d be able to do a lot of this yourself.

Because really all I do is change the way your brain works. Because at one time someone had to change the way that my brain worked.

Let me start with the concept of an entrepreneur because whether you are a business owner or whether you are an executive of a company, your brain has been trained by the business owner at some point.

And most business owners brains work backwards, not from how they should to start the business.

They start the business for all the right reasons. It’s like, I want to be my own boss, I want to do my own thing. I’m creative. I want to just be able to express myself, be able to put my ideas out there, be able to produce the products or services that I want and just that is a great spirit to have. It’s a great direction to go in.

The problem is during that process, most of us as entrepreneurs, we end up adapting all of these bad habits that go along with it and they become institutionalized. A bad habits like, “Hey if I’m thinking it, if I’m feeling it, it needs to happen and it needs to happen now.”

So whether we expected of ourselves to go out and have it done or whether we hire people to go out and do it, everything tends to run off of a whim, off of the feeling of the moment, and you miss a whole lot of the value that comes along with system.

System is a boring thing. It runs against most entrepreneurs guts.

We want things to run from us on a regular basis and just exude out of us and that’s important. It’s always important to have a vision person at a company. What you also need is an operations person.

You need at least one person that can help build a system that can pick up the pieces and run with what the entrepreneur has come up with, with what the visionary has come up with and be able to institutionalize it and make it function properly with purpose.

The problem with entrepreneurs is our purpose is of the moment. But a business needs to have a long-term purpose too. There has to be pieces that it’s working towards. It can’t just be the feeling of the moment.

So take that to today. A lot of the issues that you’re having is based off this.

It’s based off of the fact that your an animal. You are an absolute animal and everything and you’re a system of the weather. You are just a creature that just is constantly moving and changing things and it’s detrimental to your long-term business.

It’s helpful in certain pieces. It’s helpful on the outskirts, on the creativity, pointed outward and growing. As you grow a business, you need to be pointed outward. The inside of your business needs stability. Stability comes from having a very clear, achievable purpose. So it comes down to this.

We go back into the entrepreneur’s brain and we come up with ideally, what is your ideal in terms of where do you see yourself in 5, 10 years? Where do you see your company at five to 10 years?

What point are all the elements that you would need from a company to for you to feel secure, happy with it, to feel like you’ve achieved something from where it is right now? Where are you looking to get to? And you start from where you are right now.

Now I know this seems super, super simple, but the effect, the problem is that most entrepreneurs start here and they start heading that direction. They did get distracted, they get distracted, they get distracted by this and that, and pretty soon they lose track of what the ideal is.

What needs to happen is you need to start from the ideal and go backwards. You need to start from there and say, okay, what’s it gonna take to get there and plot out all of the points in between. Now, it doesn’t mean that you aren’t gonna wander.

But what it means is you got to know what the next point is and you can go all over the place as long as you realize where the next point is. And you know that that’s continuing to point to the ideal to where you’re going.

Once again, seems super duper simple and you would think that everyone would eventually find their way to doing this.

The problem is they don’t.

I’ve worked with very large companies. I’ve worked with very small companies and if there was a visionary at the company, whether it be the entrepreneur or the business owner, the executive, whoever the visionary is, they get caught up with the shiny object of the moment.

It’s just a personality thing. It’s a combination thing. They get caught up with with details and sometimes they miss the forest for the trees. If you’re looking to actually achieve something to put purpose behind everything that happens at your company. Sometimes you just need another person there to help either keep you on track, keep your company on track or help kind of deliver you to keep everything clear and deliver you in the right direction.

Even if you know you can take it from there. That’s what business strategy’s all about. If you’re interested in business strategy, you can find out more at BrianJPombo.com.

If you happen to be a business owner or an executive that’s in the self reliance field, meaning you have products and services that help people become more self reliant, go to DreamBizChat.com.

Dream Biz chat.com is the place specifically for people in the self-reliance field, business owners and executives.

This is a free pass to be able to meet with me. If you meet the qualifications, go watch the video, see if you meet it, fill out the application and we’ll go from there. Tomorrow…..Yesterday we talked about Dan Kennedy, who’s very sick, possibly on his way out of this lovely world. And I kind of bared my soul a little bit about my thoughts on Dan.

I’ll continue talking about Dan till the day I die because so much of his concepts in or weave in with mine.

I’ve learned so much and been able to apply so much of what he says. So I’ll keep bringing up his ideas. Tomorrow we’re going to bring up a very specific idea that he just used recently, and we’re a, it was brought to my attention by Sean, the Producer. And so we’re going to hopefully get to that tomorrow. Come back then and we will talk about it. Have a great night.

How Can Your Story Make You More Money?

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Mark C. Robinson – Walkin’ Pets

David Pruett’s Youtube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/user/USNERDOC/videos

Listen in as Brian talks about the importance of your origin story and sharing it with others.

A Major Secret to Success

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A Major Secret to Success, with Sean Douglas.

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http://amp-3.net

https://www.youtube.com/user/USNERDOC

Brian & Sean went out to an event and met David & Beth Pruett from Amp-3.net

  • Today’s conversation is about the value of getting out and mixing it up with people in the target market you work in or want to work in.

For us, that’s getting to know people in the off grid, homesteading niche.

Self-Milking Cow of Dean Jackson

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What is the self milking cow?

  • Concept comes from a well known marketer named Dean Jackson.
  • The idea is that a cow can’t milk itself, it needs someone else (the farmer in this example) to milk them
  • If you are a creative person, it’s hard to bring those ideas out of yourself
  • It may help to have someone else to talk with to bring out your ideas
  • Like Brian talked about in yesterday’s Facebook live, it helps to have someone else you can trust in and work to achieve success

Do You NEED to Suffer in Business?

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Listen as Brian talks about suffering in business.

  • You’ll always suffer if there is a lesson to be learned.
  • If you don’t resent the suffering you’ll likely learn faster.
  • Discovering your market, who they are and what they want…not what you want, is another way to have breakout success.
  • Business lessons the first generation of entrepreneurs must learn to help pave the way for future generations.
  • Having a “running mate” as you go down the roads and challenges of business.

How to Pound Your Head Against A Brick Wall – Forever

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3 Ways To Grow A Business

  • 1. Acquisition – This means increasing numbers, the number of customers or clients you have.
  • 2. Ascension – Increasing the average sale.
  • 3. Monetization – Increasing how much they buy, how often they buy.

The problem is we tend to get caught up in the 1st step, it’s the hardest to get (acquiring new customers) and we tend to focus little or not at all on the other two options.

P.S. – Just in case it wasn’t clear, Brian was joking about the Rolls Royce. 🙂